Molder Donker
Brouwerij Molder in Mol, Antwerp, Belgium 🇧🇪
Brewed at/by: Brouwerij Anders!Belgian Style - Dubbel Regular
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Score
6.73
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mike_77 (15880) reviewed Molder Donker from Brouwerij Molder 4 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
Deep brown colour with stable, creamy head. Aroma and flavour have medicinal notes. Obviously Gale but also some clove and bay. The base beer in the background seems really good. Would be nice to have a version without additional herbs.
bier4der (3358) ticked Molder Donker from Brouwerij Molder 5 years ago
DirDec (2083) ticked Molder Donker from Brouwerij Molder 7 years ago
tderoeck (22946) reviewed Molder Donker from Brouwerij Molder 8 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Imported from my RateBeer account as Molana Molder Donker (by Molana):
Aroma: 7/10, Appearance: 4/5, Taste: 8/10, Palate: 4/5, Overall: 16/20, MyTotalScore: 3.9/5
26/VII/17 - 33cl bottle from Willems (Grobbendonk) @ holidays - BB: 28/IX/20, brewed: 28/IX/15 (2017-1131)
Clear reddish brown beer, small creamy light beige head, little stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: chlorine, lots of dried fruits, caramel, some chocolate, bit oxidized, malty, bit of vanilla. MF: lively carbon, medium body. Taste: very sweet, malty, lots of caramel, alcohol, lots of chocolate, soft bitterness, dried fruits, bit roasted, some liquorish notes. Aftertaste: little bitter, caramel, pretty sweet, sugary, dried fruits, little spicy, bit of chocolate.
Benzai (24654) reviewed Molder Donker from Brouwerij Molder 9 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Bottle @ home. Clear dark amber to deep red to red-brown color, medium sized off-white head that diminishes fairly quickly. Aroma is malts, some herbs or spices. Taste malts, sweetness, herbs or spices, dark malts. Decent body, firm carbonation. Meh, I don’t really like it.
Alengrin (11675) reviewed Molder Donker from Brouwerij Molder 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
The more recent dark counterpart of its blond sister, a regional beer from Mol, with lightly lacing, pale greyish beige, medium thick, moderately moussy and quite well-retaining head over an initially clear, fully translucent, burgundy brown coloured robe with vermillion hue. Aroma is dominated by ethereal spices in much the same way as many Belgian winter / Christmas beer are (unsurprisingly seen the ’overdose’ of seven different herbs), with quite strong gale, which is apparently added to the cooking process, apart from impressions of strong soapy coriander, cloves, nutmeg, liquorish, cooked salsify, caramel, toasted peanuts, strong candied date, raisin, brown sugar, damp earth, subtle peppermint, gravy, dried flowers, banana, hints of brown rum, toast, aniseed (fortunately only vaguely so), dried apricot, damp forest floor, very vague iron but in a ’natural’ way. Sweet onset, lots of banana and candied date (and therefore unfermented candi sugar), light but very effective, balancing sourishness surrounding it, sharpish carbo to the point of being a bit overcarbonated for the style; nutty and very caramelly malt body with softly toasted edges, going from moderately sweet to moderately bitter but keeping both basic flavors well in balance with each other, while the slightly numbing carbonation and the initial residual ’brown sugar sweetishness’ remain, and I also get a faint hint of ’metallicness’ somewhere in the middle. On top of that, a resinous, soapy spiciness builds and builds from beginning to end, finishing in strong retronasal gale, coriander seed, clove and even mint aromas. I have no idea which spices have been effectively used here but I do have strong suspicions that apart of the admitted gale, a whole lot of the eternal coriander went in here as well. Underneath this utterly ’Christmassy’ Belgian spiciness lies an earthy finish with mild herbal hop bitterishness and a glow of warming, liqueurish, rum-like alcohol. In all: technically well done, but the overcarbonation makes it a bit too ’satisfying’ before the glass is even emptied, and to my personal taste, the resinous spiciness is a bit over the top - but then again, I have that same opinion about many other, much more ’famous’ Belgian Christmas beers (basically spiced Scotch ales with Belgian yeast strains) and although I may not like this (sub-)style all that much, I have to admit this can easily stand comparison with more established examples, of which there are, of course, (too) many. This particular one will not make much difference I’m afraid, but I do sympathize with these guys’ support for the local environmental assocation as well as their ambitions to create a gastronomically interesting and useful beer. I do think, however, that the cooked gale ’ruins’ many other things - just a hint would have been enough. Needs some finetuning, but it has no off-flavors so this serves its purpose fine among the likes of Delirium Christmas, Boelens Kerstbie, Vicaris Winter or even Pater Lieven Kerstpater, beers which I would consider to be of more or less equal quality and character.